KARMI-Bot

Doctors, nurses & healthcare workers, are unable to provide care during disease outbreaks without the risk of getting infected by the quarantined patients as they need multiple entry to the isolation ward for dispensing food, medicine and perform routine check-up. Health workers are not only at risk of acquiring infections but also of being a source of infection to patients. The precautions taken for protection has the following short comings 1 Multiple exposure even with PPE kits are not 100 risk free 2 Wastage of PPE kits for meeting the basic needs of the patients like food and medicine dispensing 3 Unable to receive immediate full-time care during the outbreak of epidemics 4 High overhead expenses due to protective measures used in long term. 5 Cleaning and disinfecting of the space and items used by the patients are risky and exhaustive if done manually. The introduction of such robots will reduce the risk of health workers by minimizing their exposure to the quarantine zone and reduce the usage of PPE kits in huge numbers which is already experiencing a shortage worldwide

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